After getting to know Android a bit better, I've found many solutions which I will share with you:
1. I started the service by calling startService(intent) from the UI. Furthermore, I send commands to the service by using startService (intent), bundling value-pairs in the intent, and then reading them (switching) in the onStart()-method in the service. 2. I could stop the service by calling stopService(intent), but I use a command as explained above, and letting the service stop itself using stopSelf(). I do this because I want to execute some methods when shutting down the service, but ONLY when it is done explicitly in the UI, not if the android framework shuts it down. Therefore I cannot execute these methods in onDestroy(). 3. I've programmatically registered the intents on the service using a BroadcastReceiver. By doing it programmatically I'm able to stop listening for the intents when the service stops and vice versa. One last thing: I sometimes in the IU want to check whether my service is running or not, and I've done this by implementing my service as a singleton, creating a static variable telling if the service is started or not. Hope this might help other "newbies" ;) Regards, Jeppe On 1 Nov., 16:53, Jeppebm <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm rather new to Android, so please bear with me. > > I'm developing an application running a service in the background. The > service is ONLY supposed to run when requested somewhere in the UI. > The service must be able to be stopped through the UI as well. > > At the same time, while running, the service must be able to pick up > intents such as "intent.action.DATA_SMS_RECEIVED" and > "intent.action.NEW_OUTGOING_CALL". > > How do I go about this? > > 1. How to initially start the service? startService(intent) called > from the UI right? > 2. How to stop it again? How do I get a hold of it when it's time to > stop it. > 3. Should I register af Receiver to the service to catch the mentioned > intents? And so, where to do this? Can I catch intents directly in the > service? > > Thanks in advance! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
